Mood, sexuality, hormones, and the menstrual cycle. II. Hormone levels and their relationship to the premenstrual syndrome

Sanders D, Leask R, Davidson D, Warner P, Bancroft J, Bäckström T

doi:10.1097/00006842-198312000-00004

Mood, sexuality, hormones, and the menstrual cycle. II. Hormone levels and their relationship to the premenstrual syndrome

J Bancroft, Torbjörn Bäckström, D Davidson, D Sanders, P Warner, R Leask

Umeå University ROR

Psychosomatic Medicine, 45(6), 503-507

DOI 10.1097/00006842-198312000-00004 PMID 6686333

Abstract

In women with premenstrual syndrome, negative changes start soon after ovulation gradually increasing as the corpus luteum develops, and reach a maximum during the last 5 days of the luteal phase. They decline rapidly once menstruation starts, disappearing within one or two days of ovarian steroids reaching baseline levels. Positive moods are at maximum when preovulatory estradiol reaches its peak. A comparison of hormone levels in women with high and low degrees of cyclical mood change showed no difference in progesterone, estradiol, testosterone, or androstenedione.

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Menstrual Cycle > Premenstrual Syndrome > Hormonal Associations Reproductive Endocrinology > Ovarian Hormones > Mood Effects Menstrual Cycle > Luteal Phase > Hormone-Mood Relationship

premenstrual syndrome hormone levels progesterone estradiol, cyclical mood changes luteal phase hormones, PMS hormonal etiology estrogen progesterone testosterone, mood sexuality hormones menstrual cycle, premenstrual negative mood corpus luteum development, preovulatory estradiol peak positive mood, Sanders Bancroft Bäckström premenstrual syndrome hormones, premenstrual syndrome androstenedione testosterone levels, ovarian steroids baseline menstruation mood recovery, luteal phase mood deterioration hormone comparison

PMID 6686333 6686333 DOI 10.1097/00006842-198312000-00004 10.1097/00006842-198312000-00004

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Bäckström, T., Sanders, D., Leask, R., Davidson, D., Warner, P., & Bancroft, J. (1983). Mood, sexuality, hormones, and the menstrual cycle. II. Hormone levels and their relationship to the premenstrual syndrome. *Psychosomatic medicine*, *45*(6), 503-507. https://doi.org/10.1097/00006842-198312000-00004

Keywords

Adult, Androstenedione/blood, Estradiol/blood, Female, Hormones/blood, Humans, Luteinizing Hormone/blood, Menstruation, Premenstrual Syndrome/blood, Progesterone/blood, Sexual Behavior/physiology, Testosterone/blood, Hormones, Testosterone, Androstenedione, Progesterone, Estradiol, Luteinizing Hormone

Mood, sexuality, hormones, and the menstrual cycle. II. Hormone levels and their relationship to the premenstrual syndrome

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